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From: weyrich@csun1.UUCP (Orville Weyrich)
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Subject: Re: CS-1
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Date: 30 Apr 89 17:56:19 GMT
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From article <2130@iitmax.IIT.EDU>, by thssccb@iitmax.IIT.EDU (catherine c bareiss):
> I am designing a beginning programming course.
> The structure is to be as follows:
>        One day a week, a lecture on a topic (using psuedo code).
> 	    One this day, all students would attend.
>        The second day of the week, the class would be broken into different
> 	    languages where syntax would be taught.

I would suggest that
you look into the book
"Programming Principles: An Introduction"
by John Motil,
which was originally published by 
Allyn and Bacon
but which I think is now being published by
William C. Brown.

This text separates the theoretical discusion
from the syntax discussion very nicely, and
I like the content.

There is probably also a Modula-2 version of the
book out now, but I am not sure that the
separation of the theory and of the syntax
is as pronounced.

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